""Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her
awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and
culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding
of the importance of diversity.""-Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India,
Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly
acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her
groundbreaking research h